We forget what happened to us as babies? Why?

Question

Scientific question

Answer 1

Brain is in the early stages of its complex organisation and the child is allowed only to ensure activity of all it body parts and the brain at that stage has only limited capacity to command those electric impulses.The cognitive development with memory and storage of information comes a little later.Hence,we have not stored memories of any experience,when we were babies.

Answer 2

This is not a very scientific answer;
I remember back to being a toddler. But some things I remember are only in context now. I think we forget what we can't understand.
At 3 I honest "remember" that I use to be an adult. Was that a past life or a dream of a child?

Answer 3

At regular intervals, I asked my son what he remembered. When he first learned to talk, he could remember being a baby, and feeling really happy when picked up. Now, at 19, he can remember a particular moment when he was three years old - kicking leaves in the autumn on his way to pre-school.

So, we maybe don't forget what happened as babies. But we don't access it very often.

Answer 4

its purely depends upon mental maturity... so the neurons in the brain continuously synthesized... but when the things are not repeated again and again... our brain will not stimulate the signals related to that thoughts... thats why... they fade and new memories occupies... though... if u couold hardly remember it might come into light... as i'm saying here is firing up the brain of the particular thoughts in the young age...

Answer 5

I would guess it's because our cognitive development hasn't advanced enough to:

Understand what we're seeing.....
Have a reference framework to wrap our memories around.....
Have the brain development we need to store the memories.....

etc. Something like that.

Answer 6

lack of language...and I disagree I feel we do remember,they say that a child's personality is formed very early on and that would be by the things going on around him....stress,love,yelling,screaming, waiting for food,comfort,lack of comfort.

Answer 7

Because we haven't completely develop. duh haha yeah